Prof. Dr. Dietmar Leisen
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Prof. Dr. Dietmar Leisen Gutenberg University of Mainz, Faculty of Law and Economics, 55099 Mainz, Germany; Phone: ++49-6131-392-5542; Fax: ++49-6131-392-3782; Email: [email protected] Faculty Gutenberg University of Mainz: Mainz, Germany. 2004-present Appointments Professor of Banking McGill University : Montreal, QC. 2000-2004 Assistant Professor of Finance Education Stanford University, Hoover Institution : Stanford, CA. 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, supervisor: Kenneth L. Judd University of Bonn : Bonn, Germany. 1995-1998 Doctoral studies in Financial Economics, supervisor: Dieter Sondermann Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics : Paris, France. 1996-1997 Doctoral studies in economics, supervisor: Christian Gourieroux University of Bonn : Bonn, Germany. 1992-1995 M.Sc. studies in applied mathematics, supervisor: Hans Föllmer Gutenberg University of Mainz : Mainz, Germany: 1989-1992 B.Sc. studies in Mathematics Current Center of Finance and Risk-Management (CoFaR), Mainz, Germany : Affiliations Director. 2004-present Past Centre for Interuniversity Research in Quantitative Economics (CIREQ), Affiliations Montreal, QC : Research Fellow. 2002-2004 Published 1. “Systemic Risk in a Structural Model of Bank Default Linkages,” with Papers Yvonne Kreis, to appear: Journal of Financial Stability . 2. “The Shape of Small Sample Biases in Pricing Kernel Estimations,” Quantitative Finance 17(6), 943-958, 2017. 3. “Does Bonus Deferral Change Risk Taking?,” Journal of Risk 18(2), 95- 117, 2015. 4. “Dynamic Risk Taking with Bonus Schemes,” Quantitative Finance 15(9) , 1583-1596, 2015. 5. “Aggregation of Preferences for Skewed Asset Returns,” with Fousseni Chabi-Yo and Eric Renault, Journal of Economic Theory 154, 453-489, 2014. 6. “Staged Venture Capital Contracting with Ratchets and Liquidation Rights,” Review of Financial Economics 21(1), 21-30, 2012. 7. “Equilibrium Open Interest,” with Kenneth L. Judd, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34(12) , 2578-2600, 2010. Dietmar Leisen 2 8. “Stock Evolution Under Stochastic Volatility: A Discrete Approach,” Journal of Derivatives 8 (2), 9-27, 2000. 9. “Valuation of Barrier Options in a Black-Scholes Model With Jump Risk,” Review of Finance (formerly European Finance Review) 3, 319-342, 1999. 10. “The Random-Time Binomial Model,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 23, pp. 1355-1386, 1999. 11. “Pricing the American Put Option: A Detailed Convergence Analysis for Binomial Models,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 22 , 1426- 1444, 1998. 12. “Binomial Models for Option Valuation - Examining and Improving Convergence,” with M. Reimer, Applied Mathematical Finance 3 , 319- 346, 1996. Book Chapters 1. “Valuing Common and Preferred Shares in Venture Capital Financings,” and The Oxford Handbook on Venture Capital, Chapter 14 , Douglas Cumming Proceedings (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2012. 2. “Incentive Contracting for Venture Capital Fund Managers,” American Institute of Physics Proceedings 1168 , pp. 945-948, 2009. 3. “Mixed Lognormal Distributions for Derivatives Pricing,” Proceedings of the Modelling, Simulation and Optimization Conference, Acta Press , 2005. 4. “Building a Consistent Pricing Model from Observed Option Prices,” with Jean-Paul Laurent, Quantitative Analysis in Financial Markets, Marco Avellaneda (ed.), World Scientific Publishing, pp. 216-238, 2001. Working 1. “Investing for the Long Run,” with Eckhard Platen (University of Papers Technology Sydney), 2017. 2. “A Perturbation Approach to Continuous-time Portfolio Selection,” 2016. 3. “Dynamic Asset Pricing with Aggregation of Preferences,” with Fousseni Chabi-Yo (Ohio State University) and Eric Renault (Brown University), 2016. 4. “Heterogeneity in Risk Preferences leads to Stochastic Volatility,” 2016. 5. “The Operating Performance of LBO-backed IPOs,” with Peter Seeburger (McKinsey), 2010. 6. “Contract and Asset Values in Venture Capital Financings,” 2009. 7. “Implications of Asymmetry Risk for Portfolio Analysis and Asset Pricing,” with Eric Renault (Brown University) and Fousseni Chabi-Yo (Ohio State University), Bank of Canada Working Paper 2007-47 , 2007. 8. “Stochastic Volatility Price Dynamics are Inconsistent with Equilibrium Dietmar Leisen 3 Option Trade,” 2002. 9. “A Comment on the Rate of Convergence of Discrete-Time Contingent Claims,” with M. Reimer (Warburg), 2000. 10. “A Partial Equilibrium Model of Option Markets,” with Kenneth L. Judd (Stanford University), 2000. Work in 1. “Board Governance and the Global Financial Crisis,” with Peter Swan Progress (University of New South Wales). 2. “Dynamic Mean Variance Equilibrium,” with David Feldman (University of New South Wales). Books “Systemic Risk: History, Measurement and Regulation,” with Yvonne Kreis (University of Mainz) and Jorge Ponce (Central Bank of Uruguay), World Scientific Publishing , Singapore, to appear: 2017. Undergraduate Finance I: 2004-present Courses Banking: 2004-present Entrepreneurial Finance: 2001-2003 Advanced Options and Futures: 2001-2003 Graduate Asset Management: 2004-present Course Risk Management in Banking: 2005-present Private Equity: 2005-present Financial Markets Theory: 2004 Venture Capital: 2001-2003 Mathematical Finance: 2002-2003 Advanced Probability Theory I: 2001 Brownian Motion, Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications: 2004 Finance II: 1999 Ph.D. Courses Continuous-time Finance: 2001-2003 Presentations Risk Management Conference Singapore; Computing in Economics and of Papers at Finance; FMA European Conference; ITN conference Financial Risk Academic Management; Computation, Economics and Finance Zürich; Quantitative Conferences Methods in Finance UTS; Spanish Finance Forum; International Conference (last five years) on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics; Annual Economics Conference of the Central Bank of Uruguay Presentations Brown University; University of Bonn (Germany); University of Waterloo of Papers at (Canada); University of Technology Sydney, University of Sydney, University University of New South Wales (all Australia); University of Montevideo; Seminars University ORT Montevideo (last five years) Honors and Outstanding Referee 2006 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Awards Graduate student prize in Computational Economics, awarded by the Society for Computational Economics for the paper “The Random-Time Binomial Model,” Stanford, CA, 1997. Postdoctoral Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dietmar Leisen 4 1998-2000 Doctoral Scholarship, German Science Foundation (DFG), 1995-1998. ERASMUS-Fellow (European Commission), University of Rome (Italy), 1991-1992 Visiting University of New South Wales, August 2015 (one month). Positions University of Technology Sydney, February & March 2002 (two months), September-December 2007 (four months). Visiting Fellow, Stanford University (Hoover Institution), February 2001 (one week), May 2002 (one month) and February 2003 (one month). Humboldt University (Berlin), May 1998 (one week). Visiting Scholar, CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics), Paris, Finance Department, October 1997 to August 1998 (multiple visits of three months total) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) in Paris, Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professors Roger Guesnerie and Professor Christian Gouriéroux, August 1996-September 1997 (14 months). Refereeing American Economic Review; Management Science; Journal of Finance; (Journals) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Review of Finance; Journal of Futures Markets; Finance and Stochastics; Annals of Applied Probability; Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics; Advances in Futures and Options Research; Mathematical Finance; Review of Derivatives Research; Quantitative Finance; Journal of Financial Research; Journal of Computational Finance; Economics Letters Refereeing Addision-Wesley (Publishers) Refereeing Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Natural Science Org. Sciences Research Council of Canada; Thyssen Foundation Refereeing Annual Conference of German Management Professors (VHB); Cologne Conferences Finance Symposium PhD Thesis Robin Demmler (Kienbaum Consultants, Cologne, Germany): “Investments Supervised in Private Equity Funds: A theoretical analysis of Private Equity Compensation,” September 2012. Björn Fuchs (Derivatives Group, Frankfurt, Germany): “Optimal Price Setting by Banks for Structured Products,” December 2010. Yvonne Kreis (University of Mainz): “The Forecast Quality of Financial Analysts in the German Market,” March 2010. Carsten Höhn (McKinsey & Co., Frankfurt, Germany): “The Impact of Value-Adding Activities on the Success of Venture Capital Funds: An Empirical Analysis,” September 2009. Peter Seeburger (McKinsey & Co., Frankfurt, Germany): “Performance of Leveraged Buyouts,” December 2009. Bachelor/ Approximately 6 masters’ thesis annually since 2004 and approximately 20 Master Thesis Bachelor thesis annually since 2009; detailed list available upon request supervised Dietmar Leisen 5 University University senate committee on research, University of Mainz (May 2005- Service June 2011). Faculty Council, Faculty of Law & Economics, University of Mainz (April 2008-March 2011). Deputy member of exam committee, Faculty of Law & Economics, University of Mainz (July 2009-June 2011) Member of several committees to select new faculty hires at the University of Mainz (since 2004) Chair of hiring committee for Corporate Finance Professor at the University